Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan

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2007
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The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world.

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The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 23 Apr 2007
ISBN 10: 0691130302
ISBN 13: 9780691130309